Return-path: X-Andrew-Authenticated-as: 7997;andrew.cmu.edu;Ted Anderson Received: from hogtown.andrew.cmu.edu via trymail for +dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr11/tm2b/space/space.dl@andrew.cmu.edu (->+dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr11/tm2b/space/space.dl) (->ota+space.digests) ID ; Tue, 5 Feb 91 01:53:20 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Precedence: junk Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Tue, 5 Feb 91 01:53:15 -0500 (EST) Subject: SPACE Digest V13 #111 SPACE Digest Volume 13 : Issue 111 Today's Topics: Re: Problems with International Collaboration (was Re: Space Station...) Re: Humanity's Launch Window Re: Expendable vs Shuttle Re: SPACE Digest V13 #090 I-CON X In the Stream of Stars Magellan Update - 01/31/91 NASA Headline News for 01/31/91 (Forwarded) Administrivia: Submissions to the SPACE Digest/sci.space should be mailed to space+@andrew.cmu.edu. Other mail, esp. [un]subscription requests, should be sent to space-request+@andrew.cmu.edu, or, if urgent, to tm2b+@andrew.cmu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 31 Jan 91 16:03:00 GMT From: julius.cs.uiuc.edu!usc!samsung!rex!rouge!dlbres10@apple.com (Fraering Philip) Subject: Re: Problems with International Collaboration (was Re: Space Station...) In article yamauchi@cs.rochester.edu (Brian Yamauchi) writes: >Of course (1) and (2) are also good arguments for a strong private >space exploration and development program... Not really. Even though the gubbimint has sucked up a great deal of the capital in this country (to the point that space startups here are at a great disadvantage) the politicians have fits when Japanese investors are kind and thoughtful enough to invest in high technology here, because they're 'eroding/stealing our technology base' even though the alternative is not having the thing built at all. The Spacehab program was set back some when a major Japanese investor was 'encouraged' to reduce his share (or so I've heard). Shame Shame Shame. Phil ------------------------------ Date: 31 Jan 91 15:57:07 GMT From: usc!samsung!rex!rouge!dlbres10@ucsd.edu (Fraering Philip) Subject: Re: Humanity's Launch Window Oops. I forgot one other little basic invention of the Chinese. Rockets. Well, that's not too big an ommision, the way things are going they may go the way of the airship: an expensive curiosity :-( Phil ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 91 14:23:36 -0500 From: "Allen W. Sherzer" Subject: Re: Expendable vs Shuttle Newsgroups: sci.space Cc: In article <1991Jan31.165851.19992@zoo.toronto.edu> Henry Spencera writes: >>Especially when you realize that the capsule has a nice little rocket >>to carry the crew to safety. >My personal opinion is that the rocket isn't necessary, actually, unless >we are talking about failures at extremely low altitude. I think it is a little more complex than that. You also need to insure that the capsule is outside the fragmentation envelope of the launch vehicle. Otherwise the parachutes could turn to swiss cheese which the crew would regret for the rest of their lives! Personally, I would want to be taken *quickly* away from the launcher before deploying my parachutes. The rocket would also help control the attitude of the capsule so they aren't tangled in the lines. Allen PS. I know Mercury carried their escape rocket almost into orbit. What did Apollo do? -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Allen Sherzer |A MESSAGE FROM THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT TO THE PEOPLE OF KUWAIT: | |aws@iti.org | "If rape is inevitable, enjoy it!" | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jan 91 12:24:50 -0800 From: nirvana@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (60351000) Subject: Re: SPACE Digest V13 #090 Please... Do NOT send me the Space Digest!! It's just cluttering up my mailbox. Thank you. ------------------------------ Date: 31 Jan 91 22:00:59 GMT From: att!cbnewsj!cbnewsi!bicker@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (The Resource, Poet-Magician of Quality) Subject: I-CON X I - C O N X The East Coast's Largest Convention of Science Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy April 19-21, 1991 State University, Stony Brook, Long Island, NY Special Guest: Majel Barret Number One, Nurse Chapel, Lwaxana Troi, and the voice of the computer on Star Trek Special Guest: Tom Baker* Doctor Who Guest-of-Honor: Dan Simmons Author of the Hugo Award winning novel Hyperion Special Guest: Harlan Ellison Other SF, Fantasy & Horror Guests: Poul Anderson, Jim Frenkel, Joan D. Vinge, Larry Niven, Fred Pohl, Jack Williamnson. Roger MacBride Allen, Jim Baen, Ian and Betty Ballantine, Hal Clement, Tom Doherty, Robert L. Forward, Raymond Z. Gallun, Barry Malzberg, James Morrow, Thomas Monteleone, Pamela Sargent, John Skipp, Craig Spector, Bruce Sterling, Keil Stuart, Tom Weisskopf, George Zebrowski, David Kyle, Tracy Hickman, Patricia Kennealy, Nancy Springer, Margaret Weiss, and more... Science Guest-of-Honor: Robert L. Forward Science and Technology Special Guests: Deke Slayton Mercury and Apollo Astronaut (currently negotiating with a Russian cosmonaut as well) Gaming Guest-of-Honor: Ken Rolston Co-creator of Paranoia Gaming Special Guest: Gary Gygax (Creator of Dungeons & Dragons) Gaming Special Guest: Steve Jackson (Developer of GURPS) Other Gaming Guests: Greg Costikyan, Jahn Faughnan, Stefan Jones, and more... Artist Guests: Jill Bauman, Doug Beekman, Tom Kidd, Ron Walotsky, and Gahan Wilson. Comics Guests: Micheal Jan Friedman, Bob Greenberger, Fred Hembeck, Steve Saffel, and Julie Schwarz. Films: (To be announced) In addition to the personal appearances, panels and film program, I-CON features an Art Show, Meet the Pros Parties, dealers' rooms, writers' workshops, autograph party, no- minimum-bid auctions, gaming, filksinging, japanimation, model rocketry, gaming tournaments, sneak previews of upcoming films, videos, stargazing, ... Special Event: I-CON Awards Banquet: Our annual presentation of the Gallun Award. Dinner. Saturday, 5:30pm, $20 additional. Ticket Information: $20 until March 31, 1991 (Children 5-11 years old, $8). $25 at the door (Children 5-11 years old, $10). Children under 12 must be accompanied by a ticketholding adult at all times. I-CON P.O. Box 550 Stony Brook, NY 11790 Please mark on the back of your envelope "USENET Registrant" so that we can get in touch with you if there is to be a USENET party. To be sure of being informed of any USENET activities...send email to me at bicker@hoqax.ATT.COM Hotel List: The CON Hotel is the Holiday Inn in Stony Brook. Accomodations there are available only through the convention: send $69/night/room to the above address, indicating which night(s) you would like accomodations for. Other local area motels are listed below: +o Beacon Motel (516) 265-0602 +o Smithtown Motor Lodge (516) 724-9000 +o Terryville Motor Lodge (516) 928-5900 +o Harborside Inn of Port Jefferson (516) 473-2499 No weapons. For more information, send email to bicker@hoqax.ATT.COM. Please do not call...but if you call, at least leave a phone number so I can get back to you. -- Brian Charles Kohn AT&T Bell Laboratories Quality Process Center Quality Management System E-MAIL: att!hoqax!bicker (bicker@hoqax.ATT.COM) Consultant PHONE: (908) 949-5850 FAX: (908) 949-7724 ------------------------------ Date: 31 Jan 91 23:47:59 GMT From: bbn.com!nic!kira!news@eddie.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Subject: In the Stream of Stars I recently purchased a collection of "space art" at our local good-books bookseller. I found it more than worth the paltry sum ($19.95) that was asked. The full information is as follows: _In the Stream of Stars: The Soviet/American Space Art Book_ Edited by William K. Hartmann, Andrei Sokolov, Ron Miller, and Vitaly Myagkov "With the cooperation of: The International Association for the Astronomical Arts, The Planetary Society, The USSR Union of Artists." It was published in November 1990 by Workman Publishing, although it only appeared in our local area this past week. The ISBN is 0-89480-705-6 (paper) or 0-89480-875-3 (cloth). Here's the table of contents: We Are the Carpenters of an Invisible Cathedral (Ray Bradbury) Beginnings (William K. Hartmann) The history of Space Art (Ron Miller) Space Art in the USSR (Vitaly Myagkov) Visions of Flight (Robert Schulman) An Artist in Space (Alexei Leonov) An Artist on the Moon (Alan Bean) Exploring by Paintbrush (William K. Hartmann) To Infinity and Beyond (Andrei Sokolov) I certainly would recommend this book to practcally any sci.space/SPACE Digest reader, even the ones who use {tr,n}n to read it. -GAWollman Garrett A. Wollman - wollman@emily.uvm.edu Disclaimer: I'm not even sure this represents *my* opinion, never mind UVM's, EMBA's, EMBA-CF's, or indeed anyone else's. ------------------------------ Date: 31 Jan 91 20:19:38 GMT From: usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!mars.jpl.nasa.gov!baalke@ucsd.edu (Ron Baalke) Subject: Magellan Update - 01/31/91 MAGELLAN STATUS REPORT January 31, 1991 The Magellan spacecraft and its radar system are performing nominally. All STARCALS (star calibrations) and DESATS (desaturations) since yesterday were successful. The correction to the battery heater set points has successfully brought down the battery #1 temperature to the desired range. Data from tape recorder test #1 is still being analyzed, but preliminary results indicate that the erase process performs as expected. Test #2, which will look for deterioration of the tape itself, has been postponed for a few days. The section of little-used tape, which engineers wanted to compare to a heavily-used part of the tape, was found to have been overwritten. Other tests of the flight tape recorder "A", using specific bit patterns or encoding rules, are being prepared. ___ _____ ___ /_ /| /____/ \ /_ /| Ron Baalke | baalke@mars.jpl.nasa.gov | | | | __ \ /| | | | Jet Propulsion Lab | ___| | | | |__) |/ | | |___ M/S 301-355 | It's 10PM, do you know /___| | | | ___/ | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | where your spacecraft is? |_____|/ |_|/ |_____|/ | We do! ------------------------------ Date: 31 Jan 91 16:22:07 GMT From: sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!mars.jpl.nasa.gov!baalke@ucsd.edu (Ron Baalke) Subject: NASA Headline News for 01/31/91 (Forwarded) Headline News Internal Communications Branch (P-2) NASA Headquarters Thursday, January 31, 1991 Audio Service: 202 / 755-1788 This is NASA Headline News for Thursday, January 31, 1991 At the Kennedy Space Center, the replacement thrusters for Discovery's orbital maneuvering system will be installed today. The replacement thrusters were checked and delivered to the Orbiter Processing Facility yesterday. Following installation and re-connection, the thrusters will be retested. Connection and retest activities are expected to be completed by Sunday. Rollover of Discovery to the Vehicle Assembly Building is now targeted for next Thursday, Feb. 7. Technicians have completed the orbiter main propulsion system gaseous oxygen leak checks. Discovery's launch is set for March to carry out a series of on-orbit experiments for the Department of Defense. The Flight Readiness Review for the STS-39 mission is currently set for Feb. 21 and 22 at KSC. Also in the OPF, turnaround activities continue to progress on Atlantis, scheduled for an April launch to deliver the Gamma Ray Observatory into orbit. Technicians have installed the replacement main engine controller on main engine #2. The flight readiness test of that engine is set for next week. The other two engines have passed their electrical and mechanical flight readiness tests. The forward reaction control system will be installed later this week. Preparations for that installation are underway now. In the Vehicle Assembly Building, Atlantis' STS-37 solid rocket booster stack is complete and is undergoing field joint closeout and booster alignment. The external tank is now expected to be mated to the two boosters on Monday, Feb. 4. Columbia continues to have minor modifications and maintenance items performed while it awaits Discovery's move out of the OPF. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * NASA will hold its FY 1992 Budget Press Briefing Monday, Feb. 4, at 2:30 pm in the NASA Headquarters Auditorium. Participants will include Administrator Adm. Truly, Deputy J.R. Thompson, and Comptroller Tom Campbell. The Office of Space Flight will release a new manifest concurrent with the briefing. The briefing will be televised live on NASA Select TV. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Also on Monday, former United Kingdom Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher will visit the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Mrs. Thatcher expressed a keen interest in space exploration and environmental science during her tenure as PM. In May, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip will visit the Johnson Space Center as part of the royal couple's visit to the Houston area. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * STS-39 Mission Facts: Discovery will fly over the Saudi Arabian peninsula 13 times on its STS-39 mission. Five of the orbits are descending while eight are ascending. One of the ascending nodes, REV 91, traverses Africa's Sudan and then flies directly over the Israeli Mediterranean coast and then over Lebanon and Syria. One of the descending orbits, REV 96, runs directly over Bahgdad and then down the Kuwait-Saudi Arabian coast along the Gulf of Oman. Here's the broadcast schedule for Public Affairs events on NASA Select TV. All times are Eastern. **indicates a live program. Thursday, 1/31/91 11:30 am NASA Update will be transmitted. 12:00 pm Seeds Revisited, a replay of the NASA Educational videoconference on the space tomato seeds project. 1:30 pm Aeronautics and Space report. Monday, 2/4/91 2:30 pm **NASA FY 1992 Budget press briefing from NASA Headquarters. NASA Select TV: Satcom F2R, Transponder 13, C-Band, 72 degrees West Longitude, Audio 6.8, Frequency 3960 MHz. ___ _____ ___ /_ /| /____/ \ /_ /| Ron Baalke | baalke@mars.jpl.nasa.gov | | | | __ \ /| | | | Jet Propulsion Lab | ___| | | | |__) |/ | | |___ M/S 301-355 | It's 10PM, do you know /___| | | | ___/ | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | where your spacecraft is? |_____|/ |_|/ |_____|/ | We do! ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V13 #111 *******************